Save Our Boat

Watershed London

agree - it's all most bland.

the clippers are not much faster (after all that fuss), claustrophobic, badly staffed, no room for a laptop, and worst of all they are now BUSIER! Where were you when we needed you to keep the Viscount afloat?

Glen Saberton

Saddened by my first trip on the new Clippers:

-No complimentary Tea.

-Unpleasant noise and lots of diesel on the back of the boat.

-Asked the Oyster ticket man when the boat would depart from Putney he didn't know.

-Flat screen TV showing ridiculous infinite looping advertisement for Bournemouth.

-Told I wasn't allowed to sit outside at the bow end when the boat was moving.

Maybe I am over nostalgic and need to move with the times?

-Glen

francois

I miss the £36/10 trips deal from Chelsea Harbour. As I have no use for a Travel Card and as I only rarely use the boat in the evening, the new service represents an 80% cost increase for me!

Emma James

As do I. I sometimes use the boat 9 times a week, but not always as I travel quite a lot with my job. Surely we can do something about this. It's crazy and doesn't even offer the equivalent "pay as you go" option you'd get on the tube.

meredith

I do too and I've already written to them about it -- web@thamesclippers.com for customer service, sophie.hanson@thamesclippers.com for marketing -- so if we could get lots of people to write and ask for it...?

francois

When I contacted Thames Clippers, I was told that they had no control over the pricing for the route: "the pricing for the new Putney service was set by Transport for London, and we have to adhere to it under the terms of our license with them"

meredith

On the Clippers the Oyster PAYG price is £6.50, but if you have a Oyster Travelcard the price is £4.30, almost as before. Thames Clippers are handing out information so clearly others are confused as well.

Nathan O'Hanlon added a blog post

Last Day Photos

Here are some photos from the last boat trip Putney to Blackfiars on the Henley on Thursday. The best of the photos are here: http://bit.ly/last-boat A Flickr Group, with the other photos, for anyone else to add photos to if they wish: http://bit.ly/last-...

clarehope

I emailed Thames Clippers to ask how much a ticket from Cadogan Pier to Blackfriars is - it's £6.50 so the price has gone up considerably.

Hello Clare,

Thank you for your email.

If you were to travel from Chelsea to Blackfriars it would be the same cost as if you were to travel from Putney and a single ticket is £6.50.

Many thanks

Jo

Joann Allchin
Charter & Group Bookings Administrator – KPMG Thames Clippers

Nathan O'Hanlon added a blog post

Prices to be hiked for the new service

It seems that the river service is going to increase in price quite a lot, with the website saying that a further price increase is planned for the day before the clippers start (1st of April 2013): This is copied from http://www.thamesclippers.com/r...

Nathan O'Hanlon added a blog post

Services From 2nd April 2013

With real time boat information available at Putney Pier River Bus services from Putney will more than double from 2 April, following the appointment of KPMG Thames Clippers as the new operator of the Putney to Blackfriars route. KPMG Thames Clippers will...

Nathan O'Hanlon added a blog post

Invitation: 17:30 The Blackfriar EC4. Thursday 28 March 2013

To say farewell to the Henley and the Viscount and the Complete Pleasure boat service between Putney, Wandsworth, Chelsea and Blackfriars before the new operators start after Easter, a few of us plan to get together for drinks at the Blackfriar pub EC4V 4...

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Investment To Enhance River Bus Services Between Putney & Blackfriars

The following article was posted today on PutneySW15.com: As Mayor & TfL unveil plans to double Thames passenger journeys by 2020 TfL’s ‘River Action Plan’ sets out the improvements that will be made to river services over the next s...